I got fired due to my knife and my stupidity.

At any rate if the above is true you can relax a little bit in the knowledge that it was not the knife that got you fired, it was really poor judgement and acting like a dumb ass.
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I agree, had it been the knife he would have been arrested, convicted, and then fired.

n2s
 
Steve are you feeling the warmth and compassion here?

If you get a chance, please post the name and phone number of the supervisor that fired you. Many people here are willing to vote him as boss of the year for protecting his employees.
 
...and "protecting "his own ass.Believe me read some of the rules,regulations that are in the company manual(updated regularly!) and you might be surprised on what they can allow or prohibit on company property and company time.And what a company employee-regardless of level-can and cannot do.It might surprise you.Some good news though....same sex couples are now allowed "marital/spousal' benefits but don't you dare flash that "black-blade-people-massacring-knife" :D :barf: :D :barf:
 
I used to have a job working for a real estate company where I did property repairs for tennants. My boss said I was not to bring my A-F covert to work ever again when he saw me using it one day to cut straps off of a bundle of silt fence. Needless to say, I quit right there and then. The very next day I got a job doing windows.
 
Gramps said:
...no doubt Cliff Stamp will be along soon with the results of some exhaustive testing on "woody" floral stems and the like.....I am anxious for the
technical information that will relegate frame locks and such to the "near useless" category.....thorough side by side tests will unlock the truth !! Tortuous torquing tests will surely exile improperly heat treated blades to the scrap heap......I expect to read phrases like "the Bark Rivers were ineffective on the tough stalks of Gerber Daisies and the fiberous pith of tea roses." I will be disappoined if his commentary is not accompanied by at least one photo of him "batoning" a blade through the stamen of a petunia. :) :) ;) ;)

-regards
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You're a silly bugger gramps, you just made me spray my keyboard with a mouthful of expensive bourbon. Thanks.

;)
 
There was a guy at my work that was threatening to beat people up if they didn't stop "talking sh*t" about him. He followed this up by taking a POS liner lock knife and doing a throat slash motion to intimidate a female employee. He was quickly out of a job and the company knife policy suddenly became a lot stricter.
 
He was quickly out of a job and the company knife policy suddenly became a lot stricter.
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The knife, of course, is not the problem, but it's always great fun when some as*clown decides to make the knife the center of the controversy.

Companies would be far better off if they'd just stick to firing dimwits, instead of prohibiting tools.
 
If I read between the lines on this one, I'm guessing that he gave the flowers to the co-worker (sexual harraassment these days) and when she made it clear that she didn't want them, he destroyed them in front of her, thereby creating a hostile work environment. They had no choice but to fire his stupid ass.
 
xsrdx said:
The knife, of course, is not the problem, but it's always great fun when some as*clown decides to make the knife the center of the controversy.

Companies would be far better off if they'd just stick to firing dimwits, instead of prohibiting tools.
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Exactly. We always cater to the village idiot. One moron puts a bomb in his shoe so now everyone has to walk through the airport metal detector in their socks. I wouldn't be surprised if all knives and box cutters get baned from that guys office. Maybe they should ban flowers too?
 
jmxcpter said:
If I read between the lines on this one, I'm guessing that he gave the flowers to the co-worker (sexual harraassment these days) and when she made it clear that she didn't want them, he destroyed them in front of her, thereby creating a hostile work environment. They had no choice but to fire his stupid ass.
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Guess we've been reading between the same lines. My impression exactly.

Rob
 
hardheart said:
I sometimes forget how many assholes are on this forum. Keep it in W&C, geniuses.
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I didn't really see anything particularly W&C-worthy in any of the responses here, except your intentional work-around of the profanity filter so you could use a vulgar word in the general forum.
 
stevekt said:
Exactly. We always cater to the village idiot. One moron puts a bomb in his shoe so now everyone has to walk through the airport metal detector in their socks.
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Exactly.

Imagine if it had been some gal hiding it in her bra instead. I would really look forward to the screening area.

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I interpret this as .. you were probably already viewed by your fellow employees a little "sketchy" to begin with, you probably pulled out a LARGE folder and chopped and slashed at these flowers, and everyone was a little creeped out and scared by this "uncommon" public display of behavior - thats why your fired. am I warm?
 
steve4765630 said:
Has anyone here ever gotten fired for "defacing a floral arrangement"?... They fired me for it. WOW! I must be the first person in history to have that happen.
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While the "proximate cause" for your dismissal may have been the flower arrangement, I strongly suspect that there is some other underlying cause or causes.
 
Like I said at the beginning, there has to be more to this story. steve, why don't you come back and explain your side mor fully.

Of course there is the chance that somebody here is right, and you are now realizing you did something that is not bright.

Then it would be best if you did not respond, because if somebody here is right, and it was the context of your action and not simply your knife that got you fired, then you would be grouped with all the people who cause restrictions on knives to be created, and I would be hard pressed to find many who would still welcome you here.

but hopefully you can figure that out yourself.
 
You know, I'm technically not supposed to carry knives at work, but I've never had a problem with mine. Most of us carry them, because some ignoramus has insisted on absconding with all of our box cutters, and opening thirty boxes with your car keys is a pain in the arse. We carry our own pens and markers for the same reason. I've usually gotten positive reactions for mine, because I work in food service, and those damn soy sauce packets are impossible to open without one. Customers are grateful.
 
I would have brought in a chipper-shredder.

Gas powered. Just not to appear crazy.

:D
 
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